The 100 pound silver white team enjoyed a 33-12 win over Bloomingdale.  The offensive line was the key to victory, as five different players got into the end zone.  The defense played very well by forcing two turnovers.  Great job Golden Eagles!--Coach Dan Hasso

Week 4--1/2 way there! »pictures

115lb Silver/Green Wins Again!

As a result of a tough 19 to 0 victory over the Buffalo Grove Bills this past Sunday, the 115lb Silver/Green record has gone to 4 and 0. Both team's defenses dominated in a close first half until #2 Casey Curtis scrambled for the first TD giving Green a 6 to 0 lead at the end of the half. Joe Serruto's interception at the start of the second half led to another score by Tim Hollowed. This was Serruto's third interception of the year. After that, Green's defense really started to dominate. Backup running backs Sean McMahon and Phil Warman have distinguished themselves in recent games. McMahon's 20 yard scramble in the 4th quarter setup the final touchdown of the game. McMahon then drove in for the extra point. Rob Neyland at quarterback continues to shine. In four games this year BIG GREEN has scored over 100 points! The team will this week welcome back one of its stalwart linemen, John Berent from an injury. Our defensive team continues to be our strength allowing only 25 points in four games this year. -- Don Warman

Buffalo Grove - The 130 Silver-White team put together an all around solid performance defeating the Bill 27 - 6 to improve to 2-2 in the division.    This was a break through game for our QB Chris Cochrane as he connected with two long pass plays to Matt Johnson (who has scored in every game so far this season) and Ryan Thompson.  Thompson also found the end zone later in the game on about a 13 yard scramble after punishing two Bills with a devastating stiff arm.  Adam Bruere continued to dominate and scare opponents with quick movements (all that speed work :-)) to the outside scoring in the second series of the game on a 30 yard run.  These backs owe a lot to their offensive line which has done a great job powering the holes and creating a wall of blockers to follow.  Fantastic job gentlemen!  The Bills did manage a big play to score in the 1st half.  They threatened once more but the Eagle defense worked the tip drill to perfection, intercepting a pass to end the drive.  The defense allowed very few first downs and caused a few turnovers.  The offense consistently moved the ball at 4-5 yards per play even putting together a 10 play 80 yard drive for a score.  Next week the Eagles will have a battle with the other Eagle team out in Elmhurst.  We look to see many of the fans out there!  Keep shaking those shakers and cheering this team on to victory.  - Coach Lilly

In what is becoming a recurring theme, the 80lb Silver Green played another great "TEAM" game to beat a tough Lombard team 25-6 to improve their record to 3 and 1. Grant Greeno scored the first touchdown of the game on a 40 yard run off of right tackle while following the blocks of Morgan Samson, Jeff White, Jack Kellenberger, Jack Prescott, Jake Lueck, Connor Willis, Matt Udelhofen, and Alvi Shuke. Jacob Stone followed with 2 touchdowns and Jake Lueck scored the last one on a nicely executed 8 play drive to end the game. Next up for the Eagles is Hanover Park this Saturday! - Robert Gibson

The 80lbs. Gold rolls to another road win. Playing a tough Buffalo Grove team is hard enough but on the road is even tougher, especially when the Eagle "D" had to shut down their main running back "JUMBO". After trading 1st quarter possessions, Hassan breaks a quick hitter up the middle for a 55yd. TD. Not to be out done, Buffalo Grove strikes back on the next play with half back pass for a 60yd. TD, but the "D" stops the extra point and the Eagles lead 7-6. With 10 seconds left in the 1st half Dayton hits Marconi on a 70yd. pass and the Eagles take a 13-6 lead into the half. Buffalo Grove comes out on fire to start the 2nd half. They march down the field to a 1st and goal at the 2 yd. line. Then in what Coach Koelher called "the greatest defensive stand I have ever seen," the Eagle "D" stops JUMBO on four plays, and takes over with a 1st and 10 at the one foot line. After failing to make a 1st down the Eagles must punt. Who else but JUMBO could now change the direction of the game. Marshall"s punt is taken by JUMBO, and you guessed it, he runs it back for a TD. But the Eagle"D" stuffs the extra point. Score 13-12 Eagles, now starting the 4th quarter. Now its up to the Eagle "O" to have a long, time consuming drive. They do just that and more. Facing a 3rd long Coach Dayton calls on the arm of Tyler Dayton, who connects with Hassan for 50yd. catch and run down to the two yd. line. Dayton scores on the QB sneak to make the score 19-12 with 2 min. left. Buffalo Grove throws a long pass  down to the Eagle 20 yd. line with only seconds left in the game. Time for one more pass play, but Jack Wagner seals the win with an interception. Final score Eagles 19 Bills 12. Next week is Lombard for Homecoming. - George Marconi

The 115lb Silver White team was victorious over a strong Downers Grove (blue) team 12-6 on Saturday. The Eagles took the first possession and tearing up chunks of yardage on the ground put the pigskin into the end zone first. After a battle between the 30's the eagle went into the half up 6-0. The second half DG came out with fire power battering the Eagle's defense until a costly fumble got the Eagle's the ball back on our 20. The DG defense equally as tough strip the ball from Andrew "Bogie" Bogadanski and returned it to the Eagles 5 yard line and eventually scoring to tie the game. The fourth quarter came and so did the Eagles "D". Bogie returned the favor and stripped the football from DG running back and returned it for a short gain. The offenses again took control of the game and scored the winning TD with about 2 minutes to play and let the Eagle's high flying "D" finish off the game. Great job by all. Hope to see everyone at Homecoming this weekend to watch your Eagles!!!!! - Jay Maylo

How was the 80 lbs. Gold team going to improve to a record of 4-1, take sole procession of 2nd place, and beat a strong Lombard team, all in the same day, you ask? The answer, the Dylan Koehler show. Koehler scored, going untouched, in the 1st quarter on a 65yd. counter play. Then early in the 2nd quarter, with Lombard driving, Koehler intercepted a pass and returned it 50yds. to set up a Dayton to Hanson 10yd. TD pass. The 2nd half was pure Bill George smash mouth football with both teams slugging it out around the 50yd. line. The Eagle "D" records its 3rd shut out with all the boys playing great football. Final score Eagles13 Lombard 0. - George Marconi

115lb Silver-Green VS Elmhurst Green

Saturday, October 2nd 2004

It was a beautiful sunny Saturday afternoon and the 115lb Silver – Green team continued it winning ways with a convincing 39-0 win over the Elmhurst Eagles. Tim Hollwed and Casey Curtis led the offence with a couple of long TD runs, Tim’s on a broken off-tackle play and Casey’s on a perfectly executed counter. But this game was to be dedicated to a very talented group of linemen, and they showed what can be accomplished at the “Silver” level of play. It was the great blocking of our offensive line (Bob Parratore, Jon Kefaloukos, James Raveret, Kevin Douglas and Adam Czamanske) which opened gaping holes in the Elmhurst line. »more

Week five was another success for the 115lb silver white as we beat Bartlett 18-0. Bartlett, despite one of their coaches, played a very tough first half in which the mighty Eagles was only up 6-0. After a half time chomping by head coach the Eagles got back on track scored on two of their next three possessions. Congrats to Bartlett for playing an excellent game despite being 0-5. - Coach Malo

The 80lb silver green team rebounded after a slow start to win 26-6 against a surprisingly resilient Hanover park team.  The defense played another great "Team" game inspired by Coach Jim Prescott's gang tackle Philosophy.  On offense, the dynamic duo of Coach Chris Stone and Coach Jason Bedsworth combined for some great half time adjustments to score 20 points in the second half, 12 of those points coming on pass plays from CJ Sojka to Kyle Bos and to Chase Ross.   Sam Knapke ran for over 100 yards behind what has come to be known as the "Angus" line of Grant Greeno, Jake Lueck, Jacob Stone, Jeff White, Kyle Bos, Chase Ross. and Connor Willis.   Next up for the 4-1 silver team is Carol Stream Yellow! - Robert Gibxon

Homecoming Away for 130 Silver/White:  Elmhurst - The Golden Eagles met the other Eagles in a sea of green.  The Green and Gold prevailed getting 7 different Eagles to put points onto the board.  The Eagles were without their starting FB Matt Johnson but got great performances out of Andrew Groesch and Mike Sandoz.  The running game was on track the whole game.  Chris Cochrane is getting more comfortable throwing the ball and connected with Ryan Thompson on a 7 yard toss into the corner of the end zone.  Thompson would find the end zone again in the 2nd half.  Sandoz added the other score in the first half running right before cutting it all the way back for a score.  Sandoz also made a heads up play in the 2nd half, grabbing a loose ball and running to the 3 yard line.  A. Groesch pushed it in to put the game out of reach.  Adam Bruere started off the 2nd half with tremendous run around end to pull off a 50+ yard run for a TD.  The offensive line of Riley Blevins, Danny Baldwin, Mitch Meyer, Sean Lindstrom, Zack Renkert, Chris Huppertz, Mike Summers and Dylan Sherman were executing all day pushing into the line and creating a wall of blockers to run behind.  Also, a solid performance by our defense creating turnovers all day long.  Eric Toombs and John McGinnis played well in the secondary deflecting passes, and Toombs intercepted two passes, running one of those back for a score.  Jack O'Conner also made a great contribution playing and finding the end zone.  He may be the smallest guy out there on the field but he sure knows how to run!  Great job gentlemen.  We are 1 more step closer to our goal!  Keep it up.  -  Coach Lilly

The 80lb silver team reflected their motto of 4 quarters of football on Sunday with a never quit attitude that almost led to a score on the final drive. In a tough fought game, the 80lb silver green team took on the undefeated and un-scored upon Carol Stream Yellow. With less than 2 minutes to go in the game the eagles drove the ball from their own 45 yard line down to the panthers 15 before running out of time and downs. The offensive line of Morgan Samson , Jeff White, Jack Kellenberger, Jack Prescott, Liam Douglas, Teddy Burns, and Chase Ross, played well. Next up for the Eagles is 4-2 Downers Grove!

Glen Ellyn 130 Silver/White - What a game... if you did not see it watch it on Tuesday night on GETV at 7:30pm.  These kids played their hearts out.  This team was down a few people but that did not deter them from pounding the ball at Lombard.  They put up 14 points on the board including a hard fought 75 yard drive capped off by a 3 yard 2nd effort sweep by Ryan Thompson.  Surrounded by 3 Falcons he was knocked around but dove for the end zone punching it in after controlling the ball for 5 minutes.  Glen Ellyn started out the scoring on the day on its first drive with Eric Toombs off a counter which raced 50+ yards for the first score of the game capped by a 2pt pass to put GE up 8-0.  Lombard was able to air it out with their QB could throw hitting his receiver with 1 second left in the half to pull it closer 14-6.  The game went back and forth in the 2nd half until Lombard put together a drive later in the 4th that found the mark and the extra point to tie it 14-14.  With 2 minutes Lombard put ran a fake reverse and scampered for the final score.  GE mounted a comeback drive hitting Thompson in the flat for about 20 yards before taken out of bounds stopping the clock.  The next play was picked off by Lombard ending the drive and the game.  The line again did a great job opening up the holes and protecting the QB.  My hats off to those guys and the rest of the team.  What a great TEAM effort!  I am very proud to be your coach - C. Lilly

Week 7! »pictures

100 Gold places the big "W" on the scoreboard against South Elgin.  Daver Glawe and Mark Hibben took turns at QB both proving their leadership abilities with key plays and a final score of 31-6.  Justin Mesch caught 3 long passes running 2 of them all the way.  On D, Andrew Larkin (MLB) plugged the middle while E.J. Howe pounded the South Elgin line and backfield.

80 Gold on there way to a 6-1 record with there 6th victory in a row

Overtime Win in Wheaton for 115lb Silver – Green  10/9/04Game six for the 115lb Silver-Green team took place on Saturday, October 9th against the Wheaton Rams Silver-White. Both teams were going into this game undefeated. What a game this was going to be.

“Big Green” moved the ball steadily down the field. Casey Curtis then had a break-away on a counter play that led the Eagles to the 9 yard line. But the Rams defense stiffened up and held the Eagles from any further progression. The game continued to go back and forth showing why these two teams were both undefeated. Then, early in the 2nd quarter, Tim Hollowed sprinted to the right side behind the blocking of Corey Fisher and Casey Curtis on a Wing Sweep and scooted into the clear. After breaking one final tackle on the 10 yard line, he collapsed in the end-zone for the first score of the game. The Eagles were unable to convert the extra point and kicked off to the Rams with a 6-0 lead.

The Eagles defense was doing very well holding the Rams to short or no gain on the next several plays. Then on a mistackle in the backfield, the Rams had a break-away scrambling over the right side of the Eagles defense. Breaking through several more tackles, the Rams running back made it to the end zone, tying the game at 6-6. The Eagles defense pulled themselves back into the game and stuffed the Rams on the extra point try.

The battle continued up and down the field, each team stopping the other from scoring. Late in the 4th quarter, the Rams marched steadily down the field to the Eagles 10 yard line. There, with regulation time quickly running out, the Eagles needed to hold the Rams to force an overtime playoff. With a truly heroic effort of the defensive team, and the help of the Glen Ellyn 115lb Silver White team screaming “DEFENSE”, from the side lines, the Eagles held the Rams four straight plays with little or no gain, the final play being a well thrown pass over the middle that was batted down by the rookie Safety, Sean McMahon.

The Rams won the toss for the beginning of the “Shot-Gun” play off. They elected to let the Eagles go on offense first. The ball was placed on the 10 yard line and the Eagles were given 4 plays and 1 time out to score. Through-out the game, the Rams had stopped the Eagles outside game with excellent containment play; however on this occasion Head Coach Bruce Fisher and his Offensive Coordinator Kevin Douglas chose to run a Trap play with their fullback over their right guard. The offensive line blocked flawlessly as the Quarterback Rob Neyland handed the ball to the Fullback, Corey Fisher. Corey then broke 4 tackles on his 10 yard run to the end zone! The Eagles then lined up for the conversion and with a well timed throw to our halfback, Tim Hollowed, Rob Neyland connected for 2 points. The Eagles now led 14-6.

It was then Wheaton’s turn. With the cheering crowd again screaming “defense” the Eagles shut the Rams down with a 5 yard loss in 3 plays. The Rams were down to their last play. Their quarterback dropped back for one last passing attempt, but Corey Fisher, the left goal-line tackle was closing fast on him. He dumped the ball off to his left where it was caught behind the line of scrimmage by the half back. As soon as the catch was made, Phil Warman, the Ealges right outside linebacker made a crushing tackle that ended the game with a victory for the Ealges.

It was truly a team effort given by the entire 115lb Silver-Green team. The “Handshake Lineup” was such a positive way to end the game, with both teams proud of the way they played. The Wheaton coaches were terrific and proud of their players as well they should be. Thanks go out to the Wheaton Rams for a great day, a great team, great coaches and great sportsmanship. Everyone won in that game! – Don Warman

Same old story for the 80lbs. Gold team, another week, another win. Final score Eagles 14  South Elgin 0.  The "D" extends its scoreless streak to 15 quarters, posts its fourth shut out, and scores a TD on a interception return by Wags. The "O" was led by the hard running of Dayton, Hassan ,Koehler, and Marconi. But this is not the whole story. The founding fathers of football had three basic rules for the game 1) BLOCK 2) TACKLE 3) RUN THE BALL. The 80 lbs. Gold team does all three well, but the boys on the line never get the ink or the glory. Its been said that running backs are a dime a dozen and linemen, on both sides of the ball, are worth their weight in gold. So this is to all the boys that play the line, YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST. Buckley, Berg, Dan, Garland, Kane, McDonough, Marshall, J.Hassan, Gorski, Haeffner, Tymoszenko, Hason, Wagner, Strittmater. These are the boys of the 80lbs. Gold team that open the holes or stuff the run up the middle. They are the heart and sole of all youth football teams. They are LINEMEN. THEY ARE THE BEST!!!! 

Week 2: Flag Buccaneers defeated the Bears 22 to 6

Week 3: Flag Buccaneers defeated the Vikings 18 to 12

Week 4: (September 20th) The Flag Buccaneers defeated the Packers 12 to 8